“The three West Australian men boarded the Shonan Maru No.2 in the early hours of Sunday morning off the coast of Bunbury in an attempt to force it to abandon its pursuit of the Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin.”
Can’t you still hang pirates?
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Unfortunately no. The US led an international initiative back in the 19th century to ban the practice of allowing sea captains the power of life and death. Pirates have to be taken to a court on land now. The sore spot for the US back then was the British preference for hanging pirates on the islands of the North Carolina Outer Banks.
They should consider themselves lucking if that's all that happens. If anyone attempted to board my vessel uninvited at sea, they would be gunned down and left for shark food.